Central Banking
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“Monetary Policy and the Business Cycle”
“From my view, I would welcome the day when the topic of this conference—”Money, Politics, and the Business Cycle”—would become obsolete. Not because there is no relation between money, politics, and the business cycle; there is. But I would welcome the day when we quit trying to use monetary policy to fine tune the economy…
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“Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve”
“Though Republican Rep. Ron Paul told The Daily Caller last week that he was worried that “some people have slipped into the Tea Party who are awfully close to being part of the establishment,” on at least one particular anti-establishment issue close to the Texas congressman’s heart — auditing the Federal Reserve — Tea Party…
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“Federal Reserve ‘Will Be Gone’ In 25 Years”
“A mere half-hour after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised the “necessary” and “very substantial” actions of the Bush and Obama administrations to “break the back of the financial crisis,” one of the world’s leading financial minds said Thursday that the United States is in the same economic predicament today as it was in 2007, predicting…
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“Rising Gold Prices Affect Local Companies”
“In financial circles, analysts credit the rising price of gold to an unlikely duo: investors seeking shelter and central bankers from India, Bangladesh and other developing countries. Both are wary of a falling dollar. It starts with low interest rates. Central banks usually hold currencies from the world’s largest economies — dollars, pounds and yen…
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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
“Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman — dubbed ‘the Oliver Stone of economists’ by the Chicago Tribune — makes clear once and for all that no one, from the local corner merchant to the Wall Street banker to the president of the United States, is immune from monetary economics. In Money Mischief, Friedman discusses the creation of…
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“The Lag in Effect of Monetary Policy”
“First, discretionary policy at times tends to be dominated by goals other than, and even contradictory to, stabilization (for example, pegging bonds yields, halting gold outflows), whereas the automatic framework cannot be so readily exploited for other purposes. Second, the inertia and the political considerations referred to above that inhibit the ready reversal of discretionary…
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“Thomas Hoenig is Fed Up”
“This is Tom Hoenig’s moment, and it’s a strange one. In Washington, he is the burr in Fed Chairman Bernanke’s saddle: the rogue heartland banker who keeps dissenting alone—for the sixth straight time on Sept. 21—to protest the Fed’s rock-bottom interest-rate policy. Hoenig warns that the Bernanke majority is setting the country up for an…
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Cato Institute’s 28th Annual Monetary Conference on Nov. 18
Our friends over at the Cato Institute will be hosting their 28th Annual Monetary Conference on November 18. Cato’s 28th Annual Monetary Conference — Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy — will address a key issue underlying the 2008 financial crisis: Did the Federal Reserve contribute to the crisis by keeping interest rates too low for…
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“Gold Miners Gain on Fed’s Latest Views”
“Miners such as Newmont (NEM) and Silver Wheaton (SLW) galloped to new highs on Wednesday, as gold prices reached another new peak in the wake of the Fed’s latest comments. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday indicated that it was prepared to pump fresh cash into the economy. That drove the dollar lower and boosted gold.”…
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Commitment
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Unknown Today’s Atlas Liberty Café featured a talk by George Mason University professor of economics Peter Boettke. Dr. Boettke gave an interesting lecture…
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“Monetary Policy and the Business Cycle”
“From my view, I would welcome the day when the topic of this conference—”Money, Politics, and the Business Cycle”—would become obsolete. Not because there is no relation between money, politics, and the business cycle; there is. But I would welcome the day when we quit trying to use monetary policy to fine tune the economy…
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“Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve”
“Though Republican Rep. Ron Paul told The Daily Caller last week that he was worried that “some people have slipped into the Tea Party who are awfully close to being part of the establishment,” on at least one particular anti-establishment issue close to the Texas congressman’s heart — auditing the Federal Reserve — Tea Party…
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“Federal Reserve ‘Will Be Gone’ In 25 Years”
“A mere half-hour after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised the “necessary” and “very substantial” actions of the Bush and Obama administrations to “break the back of the financial crisis,” one of the world’s leading financial minds said Thursday that the United States is in the same economic predicament today as it was in 2007, predicting…
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“Rising Gold Prices Affect Local Companies”
“In financial circles, analysts credit the rising price of gold to an unlikely duo: investors seeking shelter and central bankers from India, Bangladesh and other developing countries. Both are wary of a falling dollar. It starts with low interest rates. Central banks usually hold currencies from the world’s largest economies — dollars, pounds and yen…
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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
“Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman — dubbed ‘the Oliver Stone of economists’ by the Chicago Tribune — makes clear once and for all that no one, from the local corner merchant to the Wall Street banker to the president of the United States, is immune from monetary economics. In Money Mischief, Friedman discusses the creation of…
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“The Lag in Effect of Monetary Policy”
“First, discretionary policy at times tends to be dominated by goals other than, and even contradictory to, stabilization (for example, pegging bonds yields, halting gold outflows), whereas the automatic framework cannot be so readily exploited for other purposes. Second, the inertia and the political considerations referred to above that inhibit the ready reversal of discretionary…
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“Thomas Hoenig is Fed Up”
“This is Tom Hoenig’s moment, and it’s a strange one. In Washington, he is the burr in Fed Chairman Bernanke’s saddle: the rogue heartland banker who keeps dissenting alone—for the sixth straight time on Sept. 21—to protest the Fed’s rock-bottom interest-rate policy. Hoenig warns that the Bernanke majority is setting the country up for an…
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Cato Institute’s 28th Annual Monetary Conference on Nov. 18
Our friends over at the Cato Institute will be hosting their 28th Annual Monetary Conference on November 18. Cato’s 28th Annual Monetary Conference — Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy — will address a key issue underlying the 2008 financial crisis: Did the Federal Reserve contribute to the crisis by keeping interest rates too low for…
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“Gold Miners Gain on Fed’s Latest Views”
“Miners such as Newmont (NEM) and Silver Wheaton (SLW) galloped to new highs on Wednesday, as gold prices reached another new peak in the wake of the Fed’s latest comments. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday indicated that it was prepared to pump fresh cash into the economy. That drove the dollar lower and boosted gold.”…
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Commitment
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Unknown Today’s Atlas Liberty Café featured a talk by George Mason University professor of economics Peter Boettke. Dr. Boettke gave an interesting lecture…
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